I'm originally from Toronto, but I've lived in Montreal for the last 20+ years. Toronto gets a bit of snow, but not that much. When the occasional big storm hits, they don't cope as well as say, Montrealers or Calgarians or Maritimers do.

About ten years ago, there was a fairly big storm, at least by Toronto's standards, and then-mayor Mel Lastman, in a complete panic, called in the MILITARY to clean up the city. This was, and continues to be, a great source of amusement for the rest of the country, where we just call in our neighbourhood teenage boys to shovel us out.

There's always been a certain rivalry between Montreal and Toronto, which considers itself the centre of the universe. Hey people, I was born and raised there. It does.

And even the people who live in the suburbs outside of Toronto (okay, me) make fun of Toronto. I was in Toronto in December when they had a "snowstorm" (an inch or two). You couldn't get a cab, everybody was late for work, people kept complaining about the "storm". They got about the same amount of snow that we'd had in the 'burbs for about a month already. The rurals call Torontoians "Cidiots" (okay, me)

About Me

A Novel Woman, AKA Pamela Patchet, was unwittingly born and raised in Toronto instead of Paris. She worked her way from A&W carhop to political advisor to advertising executive where, on any given day, she was called upon to soothe disgruntled clients, cajole temperamental artists, juggle multi-million dollar budgets or locate trained penguins for television commercials. She married a handsome dentist for love and a lifetime of free dental care, raised three kids, and established a freelance writing career, not unlike her earlier jobs, minus the penguins.